Reply #1: A LOT of the West's reactors are getting old. [View All]

[GliderGuider]

As more decommissioning and cleanup efforts get underway and the cost of the process is revealed, public and commercial sentiment will turn against nuclear power even more. I've always expected that the front and back end economics would be the death blow for nuclear power. No matter how enthusiastic one might be about the safety issues, if the money's not there the project won't fly. As construction costs soar from rising oil prices and capital drains out of the destabilizing global financial system, we will probably see very few new reactors being completed in the coming couple of decades.